People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1896 — A Puerile Declaration. [ARTICLE]

A Puerile Declaration.

Declaring unreservedly for sound money—which has come to mean the dearest money and a 200 cent dollar—the Republican convention has earned the plaudits of the money cliques, for it has declared its policy to be to enrich the few at the expense of the many. The reference to international bimetallism is puerile. We are under tribute to the creditor classes of Europe; we are greatly their debtors. The further gold appreciates the more cotton and wheat and other produce will they get in payment of interest and principal and the heavier will be our tribute. To free ourselves from Such tribute we must do nothing—nothing save wait for the nations enjoying such tribute and profiting from our impoverishment to voluntarily relinquish such tribute.—Phila? delphia American.